[pg]

What Valleywag has discovered is that they don't have to bother getting things right in order to generate a lot of page views. They're like a troll in that respect.

I wonder if they started out with this plan, or if they just discovered it by being careless and noticing it didn't hurt their traffic.

[paul]

They certainly aren't the first "journalists" to use the trolling tactic. Dvorak and Orlowski are two other examples that come to mind.

[pg]

Mm, yes, and Donna Bogatin. She was beating on us for a while, but she seems to have stopped. What's distinctive about Valleywag is that it's a site and not just an individual.

Maybe we should make up a name for them. Journotrolls?

[brett]

trollporters

[pg]

That's better. Trollporters it is.

[greendestiny]

It's really not. Trollporter - some big green dude who carries bags, or a futuristic way for troll folk to travel instantly. I suggest Journatroll, it rolls of the tongue a little better than Journotroll. As a plus its fairly easy to work Journatrollism into a sentence where you would have said Journalism.

[pg]

Hmm, maybe journatroll is better. A lot of these people aren't really reporters, more editorial writers.